Nick 13 #1 Posted April 25, 2008 Well I knew steel was going up but sounds like the local price has went from $149 a ton ,what we got late last year, up to $295 now. Thats just the lower end, good sorted steel must be up around $340 a ton or even more now. What that means is more than ever scrap buyers will be at auctions buying anything that sells cheap to melt it down. :whistle: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CasualObserver 3,406 #2 Posted April 25, 2008 great... with scrap that high...now you won't even be able to buy parts tractors for less than $100. Economic stimulus my foot. Better tie up your horses boys... thieves will strike. I lock my little garden shed, and I live in town. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nick 13 #3 Posted April 25, 2008 Jason brings up a good point I forgot about. There are some thieves going around this area stealing anything that they can get ahold of. Metal of any kind and batteries. I heard of one farmer that had the batteries stolen from all his equipment. Not only that they cut the cables so he had to buy those also. Another farmer came home to find the batteries all in a pile out in a field so they must have been scared off before they got them loaded. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
whchris 5 #4 Posted April 25, 2008 i think im gonna get into train scrapping no to be truth full i am picking every single metal thing up off the side of the road that has a free sign on it and am not doing too bad Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BairleaFarm 339 #5 Posted April 25, 2008 great... with scrap that high...now you won't even be able to buy parts tractors for less than $100. Economic stimulus my foot. Better tie up your horses boys... thieves will strike. I lock my little garden shed, and I live in town. Yeap, same thing i was thinking. Lock them up. One our our other shops at the A/C unit cut and stolen. You know the big grey ones that sit behind buildings. Crazy what people will take. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wse100 0 #6 Posted April 26, 2008 where I am (South Bend) we only get $170.00 a ton, and that is much more than the any joe off the street cause I know the guy who owns the company. $340.00 a ton wow, I should start Hauling scrap you way, but with the price of oil I better not. Copper is $3.00 a pound, I know some farmesr the got there irrigation wires cut, yep the long copper wires that run all along there irrigation units. almost $2000.00 worth of wires. (Scrap price) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nick 13 #7 Posted April 26, 2008 For some that price difference on a large load would be worth the drive to Ohio. I think Omni in St marys Ohio is around 30 miles from the Indiana line just off 33. My brother called around yesterday getting prices to haul in a backhoe for a friend. He found $269 and $294 at 2 salvage places that didnt want the tires and one junk yard said $250 a ton with the tires. It was just my guess that clean steel would be up around $340 a ton. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kelly 1,028 #8 Posted April 27, 2008 Ya the parts tractors I was buying at the local yard last year for $30 or less are up to $75 now, that's a bummer because there is a lot of stuff getting scraped with the price so high, I can't buy them all. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
linen beige 14 #9 Posted May 2, 2008 Hey guys, Copper thefts have been rampant here in the bluegrass for a couple of years now. Folks are swiping cat. converters from parked cars, copper from air conditioning units, even aluminum siding and gutters from occupied homes. A story in yesterday's news told of some area internet and phone service being out due to a theif stealing the lines. Last fall one of these idiots fried himself trying to take a whole transformer from a substation! :wtf: And to make it even better, when they started cleaning up they discovered he had managed to already take another one. I'm talking about the big square ones too big to fit in a pick-up! Home builders are having to keep employees in unfinished houses 24/7 to keep theives from ripping out the wiring overnight. We can only hope that these prices don't spell the end of chances of finding some abandoned 'Horses in the fencerows. :D Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BairleaFarm 339 #10 Posted May 2, 2008 'Horses in the fencerows. o It will. I say a wheel horse fram at a junkyard not long ago. No nothing by a frame rear end and wheel. I offered the guy 50$ and he said no it would scrap for that. Why scrap something when some one wants it? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
glenn27 64 #11 Posted May 2, 2008 Been cutting catalytic convertors off vehicles here--big demand--one dealership lost 1/2 dozen in one evening... :whistle: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites